דָּפַק
dafak · drive hard; knock
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1849 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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dafak (דָּפַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “drive hard; knock”.
Drive hard, push the pace. Elsewhere, knock at the door.
How to say it
da·fak
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To push animals to walk too fast.
- To rap on a door.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- beating ×1
- if they are driven hard ×1
- knocking ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 33:13
He said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and the cattle that are nursing their young are in my care; if they are driven hard one day, all the flock will die.
- Judges 19:22
They were making their hearts merry, when the men of the city, perverse men, surrounded the house, beating on the door; and they spoke to the old man, the master of the house, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house, so that we may know him.”
- Song of Songs 5:2
I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. The voice of my beloved knocking! “Open to me, my sister, my companion, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is filled with dew, my curls with the drops of the night.”